July 20, 2021

Outpatient Ophthalmology in Corbin, KY

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The Baptist Outpatient Surgery Center is a fully
accredited surgery center that specializes in providing

outpatient surgery to the
patients of southeastern Kentucky.

It's a fully contained outpatient surgery center.

So the patient comes in, they have their prehab done,
they have their surgery,

and then go to recovery and it provides for a very
efficient and very superior way to provide care.

And so, the patients come in, they get their surgery,
and get to go home shortly afterwards.

It's more like an office
setting than a hospital setting.

So that eases fear quite a bit.

And here we have dedicated techs and nurses that
operate with us every time we operate here,

and in some cases, have been
operating with us for years.

Personally, my practice provides ophthalmology
services, but we provide a lot of GI services,

scopes, EGDs, colonoscopies.

There are quite a few dental services provided here
also, and we do quite a bit of general surgery.

All of these surgeries that we provide have a very high
success rate and a very low complication rate.

So if you combine that with a very nice setting that
does not remind a patient of a hospital but more

of going into a doctor's office, people like that,
and they feel quite comforted with that.

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Ophthalmology services at the Corbin Outpatient Surgery Center include cornea transplants and cataract treatments. Learn about outpatient ophthalmology with Baptist Health.

Outpatient Ophthalmology in Corbin, KY HealthTalks Transcript

James G. Huffman, MD, Ophthalmology:
The Baptist Health outpatient surgery center is a fully accredited surgery center that specializes in providing outpatient surgery to the patients of southeastern Kentucky. It’s more like an office setting than a hospital setting. The patient comes in, they have their preop done, they have their surgery, they go to recovery, and get to go home shortly afterward.

The ophthalmology services we provide include cataracts. We do quite a few cataracts here, well over 1,000 a year. We also have added cornea services to our practice. We can do corneal transplants, including full-thickness corneal transplants and partial-thickness corneal transplants.

The newest and the most up-to-date corneal transplants are called DMEKs, that’s doing a partial-thickness corneal graft, which reduces rejection and astigmatism. We actually provide that here. If we need to suture in a lens, we can do that. We can also take growths off the eye, including cancerous growths, but also benign growths called pterygiums. All the surgeries we provide have a very high success rate and a very low complication rate. If you combine that with a very nice setting that does not remind a patient of a hospital, but more of going into a doctor’s office, people like that and they feel quite comforted with that.

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